By the Civil War, America had more capital tied up in slaves than in all other properties and businesses combined, including ...

On Sept. 3, 1838, abolitionist, journalist, author, and human rights advocate Frederick Douglass made his dramatic escape from slavery — traveling north by train and boat — from Baltimore ...

A newly digitized set of records reveals the plight and bravery of enslaved people in the North ...

August, roughly a month and a half before his new book, The Message, was set to be published, and Ta-Nehisi Coates was in my ...

The Lynn Museum will host a program this week on the Hutchinson family, the most popular and arguably most controversial ...

While some Spy readers might remember Keidrick Roy from HBO's Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches series a year or so ago, for those who are not familiar ...

Douglass also included an article he wrote in ... The marvel is that, born in a slave State, as he was, and accustomed to see the colored man degraded, oppressed and enslaved, and the white ...

Educators are launching an inquiry into how the SC Department of Education decided to introduce educational materials from ...

The American Library Association has proclaimed Sept. 22-28 Banned Books Week to draw attention to the issue. In honor of the occasion, Random House imprint One World is hosting “Free Your Mind,” an ...

At the Assin Mansoe Slave Last Bath, students stood in solemn reflection ... part of the Art Cares Foundation School for a ...

NILES, Mich. (WNDU) - The Niles District Library is celebrating civil rights leader Frederick Douglass with a new exhibit. It ...

Morrison debuts with a well-rounded portrait of abolitionist Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) that focuses on his early life in slavery and the support he received from his wife upon entering the ...